Today we visit Linux.com for the weekly Linux Advisory Watch.

This week, advisories were released for emacs, gftp, bidwatcher, mailman, squid, mod_python, kdeedu, gamin, pcmcia, openssh, postgresql, gimp, midnight commander, gproftpd, cyrus imap, cups, kdelibs, xpdf, uim, cpio, and vim. The distributors include Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE.

According to eWeek the sky is falling. However, this isn't the first exploit of PHP, and I doubt it will be the last.

Multiple vulnerabilities in two popular open-source projects—phpMyAdmin and phpBB—could put users at risk of cross-site scripting and information disclosure attacks, security researchers warned Thursday.

As I understand it, this exploit has little to do with Firefox and more to do with liberties taken with naming conventions and outside factors mostly outside the control of Mozilla. Nonetheless, they have released a fix for it.

The open-source project released Firefox 1.0.1 to fix a vulnerability in the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), a standard for handling special character sets in domain names that could let an attacker spoof Web sites on non-Microsoft browsers. The standard allows companies to register domain names that appear to be the same in different languages.

Oracle announces its compliance with EAL4 running on Linux.

Oracle has met the Common Criteria Evaluations at the EAL4 level – the highest industry security level for commercial software – for its Oracle Internet Directory, a middleware component of Oracle Identity Management; Oracle9i Database release 2; and the Oracle9i Label Security release 2.

Friday is Security Day here at LinuxLinks.com. With the assistance of Linux.com we bring you this week's Linux Advisory Watch.

This week, advisories were released for libXpm, evolution, mailman, hztty, xpcd, sympa, netkit-rwho, toolchain, htdig, synaestheia, awstats, typespeed, emacs, gftp, python, openoffice, kernel, kdeedu, gallery, webmin, perl-squid, ht/dig, opera, vmware, lighttpd, kstars, midnight commander, drakextools, cpio, enscript, mysql, rwho, kdelibs, xpdf, libtiff, vim, ethereal, thunderbird, and squid. The vendors include Conectiva, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE.

SUSE, first distro to complete Evaluation Assurance Level 4+.

BM and Novell announced at LinuxWorld today that SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 has become the first distribution to complete Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+.

It's Friday, time to head over to Linux.com to see the weekly Linux Advisory Watch.

This week, advisories were released for python, squid, php, emacs, postgres, evolution, mailman, hztty, hwbrowser, cups, hotplug, xpdf, kdegraphics, gallery, perl, and squirrelmail. The distributors include Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE.

It's Friday, and that means we make a journey over to Linux.com for the weekly Linux Advisory Watch...

This week, advisories were released for squirrelmail, prozilla, cpio, openswan, enscript, zlib, gaim, cvs, openssl, curl, ruby, rhgh, file, net-tools, gimp, squid, dump, mc, dbus, kdepim, xpdf, kernel, ngIRCd, tikiwiki, f2c, ncfs, clamav, imap, chbg, vim, perl-dbi, and ethereal. The distributors include Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, and Red Hat.

TechWorld brings us the details of a test performed by IBM that gives Linux very high marks on security.

An IBM report that tested the suitability of Linux software to secure an network its entirety has come to light months after it was originally published.

Microsoft creates program promising to give advanced warning on security holes and breaches. Still no word on if they plan on improving the product so they don't occur as often.

Under the Security Cooperation Program, Microsoft will advise participating government agencies on network security issues in an effort to try to anticipate or mitigate security lapses, said Gerri Elliott, corporate vice president of Microsoft's worldwide public-sector unit.

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